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Related: a lot of drug shortages right now are driven by shortages of package inserts. That page of printed instructions, warnings, etc is often sourced from Ch
by MengerSponge 4y ago
Related: a lot of drug shortages right now are driven by shortages of package inserts. That page of printed instructions, warnings, etc is often sourced from China, so even if the drug is manufactured in America, and the delivery device is manufactured in Europe or Mexico or something, you can't sell it without that folded packet of finely printed paper that basically nobody reads.
- richardw 4y agoFriend works for a company who does various networking things. They’re losing big long-term contracts because the super-enterprise RJ45 network jacks they sell aren’t available.
- laobiz 4y agoWhere is the benefit in super-enterprise rj45 connectors?
- rippercushions 4y agoThey are demanded by the people ticking boxes at the kind of super-enterprises that buy super-enterprise rj45 connectors.
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago> Where is the benefit in super-enterprise rj45 connectors? They're super.
- elzbardico 4y agoAnd more importantly, they are enterprise!
- richardw 4y agoIt’s obviously ludicrous and I can’t remember the specifics except it seemed very different from my efforts at crimping a cable. A brief search alerts me to the presence of Cat 6A to Cat 8 shielded pass-through design with triple prong gold plated contacts, supporting POE++. Does your connector have integrated magnetics? Led indicators? Are they ruggedised? No? You’re losing out. Here you go: https://www.truecable.com/blogs/cable-academy/selecting-the-correct-connector https://www.truecable.com/blogs/cable-academy/selecting-the-... https://www.cuidevices.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-rj45-connectors https://www.cuidevices.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-rj45-c...
- vkazanov 4y agoYou're doing something VERY wrong if you don't read whatever is written on your pill's instructions!
- H8crilA 4y agoKind of yes, but you usually either a) get instructions from the doctor, or b) have already read the instructions for this drug before.
- csunbird 4y agoIt depends on the medicine! For example, I have a medicine that I take regularly, and to reduce the amount of doctor visits, my doctor just prescribes me several months of medicine in one giant box. The box contains smaller boxes of the medicine and they all come with the same description paper - all 30 boxes! I have read that paper 100 times already, there is no need for me to read it anymore.
- elzbardico 4y agoMedicine inserts were my reading material at the bathroom before smartphones were invented.
- laci37 4y agoMost people take familiar medcine. I won't read the instructions in the n+1th pack of ibuprofen I'm buying.
- MengerSponge 4y agoInstructions? Sure. But those inserts also can include lots of information on pharmacokinetics and far more technical details about the drug's method of action. I need to know when/how to take the drug, for how long, and what side-effects to look out for. Basically the rest is irrelevant to me.
- DocSportello 4y agoHonest question: is it really so hard to manufacture these inserts in the US?
- WJW 4y agoIt's not hard but it's much cheaper to do it abroad, even after factoring in shipping.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoLast or year-before-last's container shortage + Evergrande shook that one up though.
- MengerSponge 4y agoNo, not really. But the margins aren't great, and you've got to allocate the manufacturing capacity to make the paper, which takes time.
- elzbardico 4y agoOnce you did the initial capital investment, no.
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- codeflo 4y agoThat sounds like the easiest thing in the world to source elsewhere on short notice. High-quality printing services exist literally everywhere in the world. What am I missing?
- Dalewyn 4y agoTo make a completely uneducated guess, probably recertifications from a change in bill of materials? These are medical drugs we're talking about.
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoA change like that shouldn't be a big deal. A meeting to decide whether or not it constitutes a Design Change (it doesn't!) and if the new insert needs to be Validated again (likely not) and you're pretty much done from a Compliance standpoint and on to Vendor Qualification. My guess is that the problem is more likely to be finding a vendor that can print/cut to your specification at the scale you need and, critically, who can produce it on your schedule. Any capable printer is likely already booked solid for months.
- bombcar 4y agoIf it was a real problem I dare say they could ship with loose leaf pages detailing everything nobody reads.
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoAssuming they fit into the existing manufacturing process, sure. But that still doesn't solve the problem of finding a printer to print those millions of pages.
- user-extended 4y agoIt's not as cheap as the stockholders want it to be in the US.
- w1nst0nsm1th 4y agoI read it.